Mine-track tie



May 31, 1927. 1,631,034

E. e. HOLST I MINE TRACK TIE Filed Dec. 13, 1924 E2211; G. H0288 I INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT .FFIQEQ ELLIS Gr. HOLST, OF LAVOYE, WYOMING.

MINE-TRACK TIE.

Application filed December 13, 1924. Serial No. 755,637.

.The purpose of the invention is to provide a metal tie for use particularly in connection with mine tracks, so that rails may be laid quickly and the track dismantled and re-erected with facility.

To this end, the invention comprises the construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the tie show- .ing sections of rails mounted in operative positions thereon.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the structure of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the clamp or locking member.

The tie proper consists preferably of an inverted channel-shaped bar 1 which may be rolled or pressed, being provided upon its upper face with upstruck integral ears 2 spaced at a proper distance to maintain the requisite separation between the rails 3 with the inner edges of whose flanges the ears engage, overlapping or pverhanging the flanges. The tie or body'portion l is laid and the rails placed thereon and moved into engagement with the ears.

Fastening means are provided to maintain the rails in engagement with the ears and such fastening means comprise the cam-v shaped locking members l, eccentrically pivoted as at 5 and provided with radial projections 6 constituting handles 01' means by which the locking members may be oscillated or rotated. The locking members are cut away on the rail flange engaging edges, as indicated at 7, to provide ear portions 8 overhanging the rail flanges on the outside.

\Vhen the locking members are disposed so that their handle members 6' lie substantially transversely of the tie, the ear portions 8.0verhang the tie flanges a'nd the edges of the locking members abut the edges of the flanges. The rails are thus locked in position on the tie by means of the ears 2 and the locking members. lVhen it is desired to dismantle the track, the locking members are swung to a position in which thehandle members 6 lie diagonally of the tie and the eccentric mounting of the locking members results in the withdrawal of the rail engaging edges from the flanges so that therails may then be removed, and

they and the ties transported to the' point where the track is to be re-erected, 1

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is: Y

A rail tie having rail fastening means carried thereby consisting of a rail'flange en-, gaging ear upstruckfrom the tie, and a locking member opposedto said ear and movable into and out of engaging position with the rail flange, said locking member being of disk form and having an eccentric pivotal mounting on. the tie and provided, for a portion of its periphery,with a flange which in certain positions of the member overhangs the rail flange, said locking member being provided with a radial extension constituting a handle for effecting its movement I and the edge of thefdisk constituting a cam forcing the rail flange laterally into'engage ment with said upstruckear as said looking member is turned in rail locking position. 'In testimony whereof he affixes his signature. I

' ELLIS G. HOLST 

